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Nathan Fillion Almost Didn’t Make it Into Halo 5

The one thing Fillion's been in that wasn't canceled!
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Nathan Fillion is one of the nerd community’s favorite actors thanks to his stint as Mal Reynolds on Joss Whedon’s Firefly. Fillion first made his way into the Halo universe as Edward Buck in 2009’s ODST, and he’ll be returning again for Halo 5 as part of Fireteam Osiris. What many people don’t know is that Buck almost didn’t make it into the game at all.

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Halo 5’s writer Brian Reed tweeted a picture of the cover of the game’s art book. The cover shows both Blue Team–Master Chief, Fred, Linda, and Kelly–and Osiris–Locke, Tanaka, Vale, but…not Buck. Instead, the fourth member of Osiris was originally Gabriel Thorne, which quite a few people took notice of:

https://twitter.com/BrianReed/status/654721210417221634

https://twitter.com/fourthechelon19/status/654727579207757824

Reed quickly explained that yeah, Thorne was originally part of Osiris instead of Buck when they were first conceiving the team.

https://twitter.com/BrianReed/status/654732366204682244

Sadly, Thorne has to sit Halo 5 out, but you can still catch the Spartan-IV in the Halo Escalation comics. And who knows, maybe he’ll show up next time!

https://twitter.com/BrianReed/status/654732898281492481

https://twitter.com/BrianReed/status/654733493562269696

Just don’t mention it to Thorne, he’s still taking it hard.

Halo 5: Guardians hits the Xbox One on October 27. Get ready to clear your hard drive for free space! You can pre-order the game’s art book here.

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Justin was a former Staff Writer for Twinfinite between 2014 and 2017 who specialized in writing lists and covering news across the entire video games industry. Sometimes a writer, always a dork. When he isn't staring in front of a screen for hours, he's probably reading comics or eating Hot Pockets. So many of them.